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Lite-On IT, Taiwan’s largest producer of optical disc drives, anticipates delivering one million DVD drives in the first quarter of next year, according to Michael Gong, the company’s general manager for the optical disc business. Lite-On IT started production of 8x DVD drives in November, with shipment volumes accounting for over 50% of all its DVD drives. The company believes that its DVD drive shipments will exceed one million this year, Gong indicated.

Currently, DVD+RW and DVD Dual are the two mainstream DVD drive specifications, Gong noted. To cope with continued price drops of DVD+RW and DVD Dual drives, Lite-On IT keeps upgrading the speed of drives. Gong said that 12x models will be offered in the first quarter of 2004, with 16x ones in the second half.

News source: DigiTimes

Changes and Updates for 4.8
• A new eBay pane has been added
• A new Dictionary pane has been added
• A new Quote pane has been added
• New custom image panes have been added
• An alarm has been added to the clock pane
• A calendar and clock display has been added to the new expanded part of the clock pane
• Alerts have been added to the calendar pane
• A clipboard pane that supports standard text and rich text has been added
• The weather channel feed has been repaired
• The stock watcher has been repaired
• The appearance of the weather channel and web search have been improved
• The appearance and functionality of the command line pane has been improved
• The volume control now has a context menu for accessing volume settings
• Bugs related to the bar not positioning itself when the screen resolution changes or the taskbar repositioning have been resolved
• Bugs related to the bar not hiding itself when a full screen app is detected have been resolved
• Control buttons and the option for continuous scrolling have been added to the news ticker
• An option to display the Mother Board Monitor display's temperatures in Fahrenheit has been added

Fixes for v0.981
• The network monitor on the Adv System Monitor has been repaired
• The BBC Weather pane expanding bug has been fixed
• The custom image pane bugs have been repaired
• The eBay pane has been fixed
• The pane maximize bug has been fixed
• The taskbar button right click bug has been fixed
• The font for dates and times can now be changed in config.exe if they are not displayed correctly
• The media players have been improved
• There is now an option to display the alarm settings by double clicking, and the calendar by single clicking for the clock pane
• Several visual enhancements have been made, including fading button effects and new themes.